From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752680AbZD1UFg (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:05:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751929AbZD1UF0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:05:26 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:47757 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751019AbZD1UF0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:05:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:58:13 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: Borislav Petkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Doug Thompson Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21] amd64_edac: EDAC module for AMD64 Message-ID: <20090428195813.GA4474@kroah.com> References: <1240931173-17477-1-git-send-email-borislav.petkov@amd.com> <20090428155852.GA9956@kroah.com> <20090428160612.GB7239@aftab> <20090428113410.e0b04f94.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090428113410.e0b04f94.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (cc Doug. He was omitted from the [0/n] email. Please be careul about > that) > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:06:12 +0200 > Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:58:52AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:05:52PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > hi Greg, > > > > > > > > I think you've already heard about this driver, so here is a first > > > > upstream submission request. It is quite sizable but partly the reason > > > > for it is that it handles ECC detection and reporting for all AMD > > > > K8, F10h and F11h families. It also implements DRAM error injection > > > > functionality, failing DIMM module detection and some other fun stuff > > > > found on F10h and later CPUs. > > > > > > > > We've been doing testing/bugfixing/scrubbing here for some time, have > > > > converted it to using kernel facilities and basically removed some slack > > > > from it like glue code due to it being maintained out-of-tree. Please > > > > take a look and let us know of any objections/comments you might have so > > > > that we could tackle them on time. > > > > > > At first glance, it looks sane to me. > > > > > > Want me to put it in my driver tree so it can show up in -next? Or is > > > there some other tree you want to use? > > > > -next should be just fine, let the code see some more testing :). > > I suspect we will need another iteration because of the rdmsr/wrmsr > thing. > > I normally merge EDAC patches via -mm but there will be little overlap > with a new driver such as this and I still haven't got my junk into > linux-next yet. So whatever. Ok, you can take them, I have enough patches in my tree :) thanks, greg k-h